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title: In one moment, the trees were all ablaze with rubies, emeralds, diam… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In one moment, the trees were all ablaze with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and every other precious stone you can think of. Who acts: trees, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 26

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In one moment, the trees were all ablaze with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and every other precious stone you can think of.

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**Who acts:** trees, you · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** other precious stone

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:25:26
# text = In one moment, the trees were all ablaze with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and every other precious stone you can think of.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ablaze	ablaze	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the trees |  |  |  | moment | with rubies and emeralds and diamonds; ablaze, all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | can | you | every other precious stone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot stone=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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